Folsom’s Harris Center for the Arts has officially announced its 2024-2025 Broadway Series. Six spectacular shows, including four mega-hit Tony Award winners, the hysterical sequel to a smash-hit, and one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time make up what is sure to be The Most Amazing Season to come at the city’s premier entertainment venue.
According to Tuesday’s official announcement, the Harris Center for the Arts 2024-2025 Broadway Series will include the following shows”
COME FROM AWAY – October 22-27, 2024
On September 11, 2001, the world stopped. On September 12, their stories moved us all. A “Best Musical” winner across North America, including the Tony Award for “Best Direction of a Musical,” 4 Olivier Awards (London) including “Best New Musical,” 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards (NYC) including “Outstanding New Broadway Musical,” and 3 Drama Desk Awards (NYC) including “Outstanding Musical,” COME FROM AWAY tells the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
HADESTOWN – December 12-15, 2024
Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 TonyAwards including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show from celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) is a love story for today… and always.
Intertwining two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
DEAR EVAN HANSEN – January 28-February 2, 2025
Declared “one of the most remarkable shows in musical theater history” by The Washington Post and “an anthem resonating on Broadway and beyond” by NBC Nightly News, DEAR EVAN HANSEN is a Tony- and Grammy-Award winning “Best Musical” sensation and the first contemporary musical about connection in the digital age.
Packed with some of the most popular musical theatre songs from the last decade including “You Will Be Found,” “Waving Through A Window,” and “For Forever,” DEAR EVAN HANSEN features an uplifting score by the Tony, Grammy, and Oscar winning team behind The Greatest Showman, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, and a book by Tony Award winner Steven Levenson.
DISCLAIMER: DEAR EVAN HANSEN is recommended for ages 12 and up and contains adult themes, including discussions of suicide.
ANNIE – February 14-16, 2025
ANNIE, the iconic Tony Award-winning musical, is a celebration of family, optimism, and the American spirit and remains the ultimate cure for all the hard knocks life throws your way. Holding onto hope when times are tough can take an awful lot of determination, and sometimes, an awful lot of determination comes in a surprisingly small package. Little Orphan Annie has reminded generations of theatergoers that sunshine is always right around the corner, and now the best-loved musical of all time is set to return in a new production – just as you remember it and just when we need it most.
MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL 2 – February 20-23, 2025
The hysterical sequel to the smash-hit Menopause The Musical is finally here! Five years after their chance encounter in a department store, we set sail with our beloved ladies for more high jinks on the high seas. MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL 2: Cruising Through ‘The Change’ is a hilarious and heartfelt look at the joys of menopause and friendship — plus hot flashes, mood swings, and memory lapses! Join us on a trip of self-discovery, backed by a new soundtrack of toe-tapping parodied hits from the 70s, 80s and 90s. For these four ladies, menopause was not the end, but the beginning of a beautiful friendship where love conquers all, and friendships never fail.
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICAL – March 7-9, 2025
Based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved romantic stories of all time, the show springs to life with a powerhouse creative team led by two-time Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde).
PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICALfeatures an original score by Grammy winner Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance (“Summer of ’69,” “Heaven”), and a book by the movie’s legendary director Garry Marshall and screenwriter J. F. Lawton. PRETTY WOMAN: THE MUSICALwill lift your spirits and light up your heart. “If you love the movie, you’ll love the musical!” (BuzzFeed News). Are you ready to fall in love all over again?
More detailed information on the Broadway Series and on each individual production can be found at HarrisCenter.net/Broadway.
Tickets for the new series are available as follows:
Season Subscriber Renewals: May 28 – June 17
New Subscribers On-Sale: June 25
HCA Members Individual Tickets On-Sale: July 16-22
General Public On-Sale: July 23
NOTE: Interested patrons may pre-register a subscription request now by filling out the request form here, and the Harris Center will call you to complete your purchase when New Subscriptions are available on June 25. Subscription orders will be processed in the order they are received.
Subscription packages are available for as low as $55 per show beginning on June 25. Individual tickets are available beginning July 23. For more information, visit HarrisCenter.net/Broadway, or call the Box Office at (916) 608-6888. Box Office hours are Tuesday – Friday from 12:00pm – 5:00pm.
About Harris Center for the Arts
Long envisioned as a critically important element for Folsom Lake College, the visual and performing arts center was initially conceived as a facility to instruct, develop, and guide talented students to become actors, musicians, dancers, visual artists, and behind-the-curtain technicians. The scope and size of the Center expanded significantly with a 2003 feasibility study which validated the need for a facility that could also serve as a regional arts center for the greater community.
In 2004, the project proposal approved by the Los Rios Board of Trustees was submitted to the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office for final funding approval in the 2005-06 budget year. Construction of the $50 million project began in July 2008, supported by a State Educational Facilities General Obligation Bond, Local Measure A Bond, other District resources, and donations to the Folsom Lake College Foundation.
In February, 2011, the Center opened as “Three Stages at Folsom Lake College” and by the end of its second full season it had already attracted over 300,000 patrons to its offerings. In August, 2012, the Los Rios District Board of Directors announced the renaming of the facility to the “Harris Center for the Arts,” honoring Chancellor Emeritus Brice Harris who, during his tenure, oversaw a doubling of the size of the District, including the development of Folsom Lake College. He, together with then President of the College Thelma Scott-Skillman, was perhaps most responsible for seeing the vision of a Regional Performing Arts Center for the community realized.
The 80,000-square-foot center includes three stages and is located at Folsom Lake College. Before Covid-19, it hosted more than 400 events per year. The venue, initially called Three Stages at Folsom Lake College, opened in 2011. It temporarily closed in July 2020, as the pandemic disrupted entertainment venues nationwide.
